fusil
Example Sentences
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But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on.
From Literature
But although early rolls of arms sometimes neglect this detail in their blazon, the fusils making a fesse must always be of an ascertained number.
From Project Gutenberg
The fusil is like the lozenge, but narrower.
From Project Gutenberg
They fought from early morning till four in the afternoon, without Montauban being able to get the weather-gauge, or approach near enough to use his chief arms—his fusils.
From Project Gutenberg
If thou wert with me at Paris, I could show thee a fusil of two barrels, which is precious beyond any other relic, merely because it enabled me to kill thirteen officers at Jemappe.
From Project Gutenberg
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